Well now that the iPhone is out we'll do some rumor coverage to see who was telling the truth and who was... well not entirely truthful, or had bogus "inside sources".
Let's hop in the way back machine and take a look:
FALSE / iPhone Rumors and iPhone Lies
- CNET reports: iPhone Release Date: June 11, 2007. Start your countdown now!
CNBC: iPhone to be Available on June 20
- Jim Crammer from TheStreet.com reported that Cingular (the new AT&T) was going to give away 1.5 years of free service when purchasing an iPhone. (source)
- WR Hambrecht & Co: AT&T shops to have less than 40 phones each
- A Wall Street Journal article reports that Apple will be including Flash, Adobe/Macromedia's de facto standard media plug-in with the iPhone.
- Anything WordPress blogger "vim3" said:
- iPhone will ship with more than 4 or 8 gigs of flash memory.
- There will indeed be a user replaceable battery in the iPhone.
- iPhone will support Wireless N.
- iPhone will ship with a mobile version of... iWorks. Word processing, spreadsheet and slide shows.
- iTunes will stream from a computer on your wi-fi network.
- You'll be able to purchase tunes directly from the iTunes store from the iPhone.
- AT&T will offer rebates on the iPhone.
We can't believe how much press this phoney got.
- Dr. Simon Croom of the Supply Chain Mangement Institute: The Apple iPhone may face shortages of four to eight weeks at it's June 29th launch.
TRUE Stuff
- iPhone will have no Cingular / AT&T branding
- AT&T soon have an "Unlimited" package for iPhone users.
- Leaked iPhone training manual
- iPhone to REQUIRE data plan
- Gizmodo: Insider has Hands-On with iPhone
There were probably more but we just couldn't cover it all. Hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Let's hope the news has less gossip and more facts now that the iPhone is here.
